Are Blu-ray remasters future proof?

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Originally Posted by Dragun

A common misconception with computer editing seems to be that the film is edited, then those files are what end up on movie screens. When a movie is edited on a computer, the film is edited with low-quality proxy files. From there the negative (if shot on film) is conformed to the edit, and then prints can be made the traditional way, from an internegative. Or, in the case of digital intermediates (whether shot on film or digitally), the shots used in the edit are brought online at to create a full-quality version of the film, which is then graded.

So you're saying that movies like LOTR were all scanned in at 4k to keep the full detail of the 35mm negatives and then downgraded to 2k for the DI? To my knowledge, the movie's final form is at 2k, just like the Star Wars OT special editions are all at 1080p as that's what the final versions were saved to when they were done.